Collection Inventory

Series I.USX Clairton Coke Works

Scope and Content Notes:

The USX Clairton Coke Works files contain documents regarding Domike's work as an active member of the USWA Local 1557 and as part of the Committee of Concerned Unionists (CCU). Documents in the collection regarding her involvement in the CCU include correspondence, pamphlets and information about environmental organizations, such as the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) and Enviro-SOS. Also included in this series are layout sheets and articles for the Clairton newsletter
Steelworkers Stand Up, which described problems and announced important events within the steel industry, the USWA, and other unions. Information regarding Domike's candidacy for teh office of Local 1557 recording secretary and grievances from the Clairton Works' wiregang dating from 1946-1979 are also present.

Box 1

Folder

1

Committee of Concerned Unionists, 1978

Folder

2

Environmental Control and Pollution, 1976-1978

Folder

3

GASP and Enviro-SOS, 1972-1973

Folder

4

Steelworkers Stand Up Layout Sheets, 1977

Folder

5

Letter regarding
1557 Journal (Clairton) Article, 1979

Folder

6

Wiregang Grievances with Motor Inspectors, 1946-1979

Folder

7

USWA Local 1557 Election, 1979

Series II.Women of Steel

Scope and Content Notes:

This series contains records about local and national union activities regarding women. These files include District 15's Civil Rights Committee records, labor women and trade news clippings,
Women of Steel newsletters, information on the 1976 International USWA Constitutional Convention, and Domike's "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," a satirical pamphlet directed against the sexual harassment of women in the mills. Samplings of Domike's labor pins on various topics are also present.

Box 1

Folder

8

Civil Rights Committee, District 15

Folder

9

Labor Women and Trade Unions News Clippings

Folder

10

Women of Steel Newsletter, 1979

Folder

11-13

Consent Decree and Equal Pay

Folder

14

International USWA Conference, 1976

Folder

15

"Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions"

Folder

16

Labor Pins

Series III.The State of Steel Industry, 1975-1979

Scope and Content Notes:

The State of the Steel Industry series represents records from the national, as well as local union, levels. These records consist of magazine and news clippings about the steel industry, a list of United Steelworkers' Shops, and
Rank and File Team newsletters from 1975-1976.

Box 1

Folder

17

Magazines and News Clippings, 1979

Folder

18

United Steel Workers Shops, undated

Folder

19-20

Rank and File Team Newsletters, c.1975-1976

Series IV.Edward Sadlowski Campaign, 1976-1979

Scope and Content Notes:

This series contains documents related to the campaign of Edward Sadlowski for the presidency of the United Steelworkers of America. These files include Sadlowski's platform and the platform of his opponent, Lloyd McBride, and publicity information which appeared in various steel union newsletters. Also present are the National Steelworkers Rank and File Committee Reports, election results, and press releases.

Fighting Times Clairton Local Rank and File Newsletter, November 1977-November 1978

Folder

40

Press Releases

Folder

41

USWA International Election Results, District 15 and Master Sheet by Districts, 1977

Folder

42

International Elections Results

Series V.Mon Valley Unemployed Committee and Food Bank, 1982-1983

Scope and Content Notes:

This series contains records related to the Mon Valley Food Bank and reflect the joint efforts of the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee and St. Peter's Church in McKeesport, Pennsylvania to provide food assistance to laid-off local union members. While working with the Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, Domike was responsible for the St. Peter's Church Food Bank's newsletters, which are included in this series along with minutes, correspondence, and press releases.

Box 2

Folder

1-4

Newsletters, Minutes, Correspondence, and Member Lists

Series VI.Crashin' Out: Hard Times in McKeesport Oral History Project, 1983

Scope and Content Notes:

The
Crashin' Out: Hard Times in McKeesport Oral History Project records consist of audio cassettes and transcripts, a bibliography, papers regarding oral history techniques, a Mon Valley Unemployed Committee slide show script about McKeesport, research, field questions, and photo essays. Interviews for the project were completed by students hired under a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) grant. The goal of the grant was to talk to people who lived through the Great Depression or had personal experiences with the 1980s downturn of the steel industry in the Monongahela Valley.

This series contains five subseries relating to Domike's work as the film's co-producer. Topics include funding, movie production, research materials, the film premiere, and book material.

Subseries 1.Funding

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries details the fundraising efforts for
The River Ran Red, including applications to such granting agencies as the Pennsylvania Humanties Council, correspondence with potential donors and correspondence with several Pennsylvania legislators regarding their recommendation of the film for a state legislative initiative led by the Department of Community Affairs to bring grant money to the project. Project budgets and financial information documenting Mon Valley Media's non-profit eligibility are also present.

The files in this subseries include resumes and credentials of several of the actors and crew members of
The River Ran Red documentary. Other documents include information on research, film logs and on-site scene filming, and details on the sound recordings used in the movie. Many of the articles in the research section are repeated, with different notes and highlighting depending on the topic of the folder.

New Materials added October 2011.

Box 5

Folder

2

Credits List, Plus and EDL Printout with Computer Disks

Folder

3

Crew List

Folder

4

Cinematographers

Folder

5

Prop Contributor List

Folder

6

Recording Narration, Blair Brown

Folder

7

Crew Resumes

Folder

8

Actors' Resumes

Folder

9

Narrator Blair Brown Correspondence, 1993

Folder

10

Artist Fred Carlson, 1992

Folder

11

Artist Charles Ingram, 1992-1993

Folder

12

Artists Stacey Innerst and Bob Qualters, 1992-1993

Folder

13

New World Records-- Yankee Brass Band Correspondence

Folder

14

Musician Neely Bruce Correspondence

Folder

15

Archie Green and Homestead Strike Songs

Folder

16

Lists and Notes for Music

Folder

17

Music Rights Clearance

Folder

18

Sheet Music

Folder

19

Musician Mike Sweeney's Cassette

Folder

20

Sound Effects

Folder

21

Blank Release Forms for Image and Property

Folder

22

Scene Location Authorization, 1992-1993

Folder

23

Clayton and River Shoots, Production Schedules

Folder

24

Courthouse and Jail Correspondence Photographs and Negatives

Folder

25

Homestead Dead and Wounded Gravesite Photographs

Folder

26

Scotland Correspondence

Folder

27

Train Footage

Folder

28

PBS Program Producer's Handbook

Folder

29

New York Voice-Over Trip

Folder

30

Pittsburgh Filmmakers

Folder

31

Distribution Plan

Folder

32

Foundation Pages

Folder

33

Corporate Originals

Folder

34

Original
The River Ran Red Support Letters

Folder

35

Graphics and
Greater Pittsburgh

Folder

36

Debolt and Homestead Fires, April 11-13, 1992

Folder

37

Edit Decision Lists

Folder

38

Field Logs

Folder

39

Film Logs and Videotaped Stills

Folder

40

Lab Reports

Folder

41

Log Sheet Blank Forms

Folder

42-43

Edit Logs in Camera Roll Order

Folder

44

Video Logs/Stills in Video Real Order

Folder

45-46

Logs for Filmed Stills

Box 6

Folder

1

Audio and Sound Effects Log

Folder

2

Script Copies with Edit Notes and the Homestead DemolitionResearch

Section: New Material Added, 2011

Box 73

Folder

1

Camera and Sound Logs, 1992

Folder

2

Draft Script, 1992

Folder

3

Draft Script, January 1992

Folder

4

Draft Script, April 1992

Folder

5

Draft Script, December 1992

Folder

6

Draft Script, January 1993

Folder

7

Draft Script for Voice Overs, 1992

Folder

8

Final Draft Script with Narrator Recording Notes, 1993

Folder

9

Interview of and Correspondence with Harold Ruttenberg, 1991-1992

Folder

10

Interviews of Homestead Retirees, 1991

Folder

11

Interview of Monsignor Charles Owen Rice, 1991

Folder

12

Project Summary as Original Title, "Monongahela Morning," undated

Folder

13

Review Published in the
Public Historian, 1993

Folder

14

Shooting Logs, 1991-1992

Folder

15

Sound Logs, 1993

Folder

16

Study Guide, 1994

Subseries 3.Research

Scope and Content Notes:

This section contains materials collected while researching for
The River Ran Red. These documents were accumulated from a variety of archives and libraries across the country and include essays that appear in books regarding the Homestead strike, late-nineteenth century labor issues, and the steel industry. Also present are copies of newspaper articles from 1892 which discuss the Homestead conflict.

Box 6

Volume

1

Rivers of Steel

Folder

3

The Nation Review of
The Killing Floor

Folder

4

Play
Steel/City, 1976

Folder

5

Congressional Investigation Articles, 1892

Folder

6

U.S. Senate Investigation Articles, 1893

Folder

7

E. C. Kirkland, "Dream and Thought in the Business Community", 1860-1900

Folder

8

Pictorial History of American Labor by William Cahn

Folder

9

American Labor by M.B. Schnapper

Folder

10

Parks: A Part of Pittsburgh by the Citizen's Committee on City Planning of Pittsburgh, 1923

Folder

11

Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town by Margaret Byington

Folder

12

Pittsburgh Index, 1903-1904

Folder

13

Louis Sullivan and the Chicago School by Nancy Frazer

Folder

14

J.J. McIlyar: an Autobiography

Folder

15

Steel Bibliography by Bob Noble, 1981

Folder

16

History Books' Account of Strike

Folder

17-18

Cloud by Day Photographs

Folder

19

Fort Frick or
The Siege of Homestead by Myron Stowell

Folder

20

History of the First Methodist Episcopal Church

Folder

21

Inside History of the Carnegie Steel Company

Folder

22

Emma Goldman in America by Alice Wexler

Folder

23

Wage Earning Pittsburgh, ed. Paul Underwood Kellogg

Folder

24

Who Built America? American Social History Project

Folder

25

Tribune Almanac, 1892

Folder

26

Labor Poems

Folder

27

Account of the Homestead Strike by Robert P. Dickson

Folder

28

Strikers, Communists, Tramps, and Detectives by Allan Pinkerton

Folder

29

Pinkertons by James D. Horan

Folder

30

London by Dore and Jerrold

Folder

31

The Lockout, 1892

Folder

32

Labor Rights, 1892

Folder

33

Legal Articles, 1892

Folder

34

Legal Articles

Folder

35

Management Articles, 1892

Folder

36

Militia Articles

Folder

37

Negotiations, 1892

Folder

38-39

Pinkertons

Folder

40

Reflections After the Strike

Folder

41

Strike Activities

Box 7

Folder

1

Technology/Economics

Folder

2

Mrs. Finch and Other Women

Folder

3

Steel Workers Organizing Committee (S.W.O.C.)

Folder

4

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1990-1993

Folder

5

George Meany Labor Archives, 1991-1992

Folder

6

Chicago Historical Society, 1991-1993

Folder

7

George Eastman House, 1991-1993

Folder

8

Braddock Library, 1992

Folder

9

Bill Gaughan Collection, 1992

Folder

10

Carnegie Museum's Swank Photographs, 1993

Folder

11

John Gates Coke Photographs, 1993

Folder

12

Hagley Museum and Library, 1993

Folder

13

Lewis Hine Images, 1993

Folder

14

American Social History Project and
National Police Gazette Image, 1993

Folder

15

Bettman Commercial Archives, 1993

Folder

16

Drake Well Museum Oil Well Image, 1993

Folder

17

Johnstown Area Heritage Association Steel Mill Footage, 1993

Folder

18

Library of Congress, 1993

Folder

19

Pennsylvania Room Photographs from Carnegie Library

Folder

20

Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum in Dunfermline, Scotland

Folder

21

Carnegie Library in Homestead

Folder

22

Carnegie Mellon University Archives

Folder

23

Culver Commercial Archives Pictures

Folder

24

Carnegie Music Hall Archives in New York

Folder

25

Frick Archives

Folder

26

Frick Archives

Folder

27

Recorder of Deeds

Folder

28

Pittsburgh Survey Photographs from the University of Pittsburgh Falk Library

Folder

29

Hillman Library and Archives, University of Pittsburgh

Folder

30

Photographs of Lowell, Massachusetts

Folder

31

Museum of the City of New York

Folder

32

National Archives and Records Administration

Folder

33

National Park Service

Folder

34

New York Historical Society

Folder

35

New York Municipal Archives

Folder

36

New York Public Library

Folder

37

Pattee Library Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Pennsylvania State University

Folder

38

New York Society Library

Box 8

Folder

1

Pittsburgh History and Landmarks

Folder

2

Rare Book Search Information

Folder

3

Smithsonian and Hirschorn

Folder

4

Pennsylvania State Archives

Folder

5

Steamship Society of America

Folder

6

UCIR, University of Pittsburgh Photographic Center

Folder

7

Notes on Andrew Carnegie

Folder

8

Homestead Library research

Folder

9

Library Research

Folder

10

Homestead Related Articles

Folder

11-12

Homestead, 1892

Folder

13

Samuel Gompers Letters

Folder

14

Randy Harris Photographs

Folder

15

B.L.H. Dabbs

Folder

16

Black Workers

Folder

17

Pastor McIlyar Articles

Folder

18

Articles Regarding the Amalgamated Association #2

Folder

19

Mock Amalgamated Document Articles

Folder

20

Articles on the Amalgamated Association #1

Folder

21

Frick Assassination Attempt Articles

Folder

22

Alexander Berkman Articles

Folder

23

Andrew Carnegie Articles

Folder

24

John McLuckie

Folder

25

Thomas Crawford Article

Folder

26

Hugh O'Donnell

Folder

27

Henry Clay Frick Articles

Folder

28

Ethnic and Unskilled Labor Articles

Folder

29

Irish World and
Industrial Labor Articles

Folder

30

Chicago Times from Chicago Historical Society

Folder

31

Harper's Weekly Photographs

Folder

32

Harper's Weekly, 1892

Folder

33

McClure's Magazine Photographs and Articles

Folder

34

McClure's Magazine, 1892

Folder

35

Pennsylvania Magazine Correspondence and Article

Folder

36

The Pittsburgh Dispatch, July 6, 1892

Folder

37

Pittsburgh Press Photographs

Folder

38

Pittsburgh Press, 1892

Folder

39

Scribner's, 1894

Folder

40

Utica Saturday Globe, July, 1892

Folder

41-42

Pittsburg Leader, 1892

Folder

43

Frank Leslie's Weekly, 1892-1893

Folder

44

The Iron Trade Review, 1892

Folder

45

The Engineering and Mining Journal, 1892

Folder

46

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1892

Box 9

Folder

1

The Iron Age, 1892

Folder

2-3

The World, 1892

Folder

4

London Times and Newspaper Research

Folder

5-6

Labor Tribune, 1892

Folder

7

New York Times, 1892

Folder

8

New York Herald, 1892

Folder

9

Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, 1892

Folder

10

Pittsburgh Post, 1892

Folder

11

Pittsburgh Post and
Pittsburgh Evening Telegraph, 1892

Folder

12

Homestead Local News, 1892

Folder

13

Pittsburgh Times, 1882, 1892

Folder

14

Pittsburgh Dispatch, 1892

Folder

15

Trade Union of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Their History, 1895

Folder

16

Miscellaneous News Clippings, 1892

Folder

17

Aftermath of the Homestead Strike

Subseries 4.Press and Premiere

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries details the premiere of
The River Ran Red documentary and the reviews of the movie. Included are news clippings, press releases, and Homestead Centennial Committee information contributing to the awareness of the Homestead strike. Also present are merchandise requests and a
River Ran Red t-shirt.

Box 9

Folder

18

Advertisements, Press Releases, and Programs for
The River Ran Red, 1993

Folder

19

Publicity Photographs

Folder

20

The River Ran Red Ariel Dorfman, LaRoche, and Miscellaneous Press

Folder

21

Homestead Steel Strike Centennial Activities, 1992

Folder

22

Homestead Centennial Committee Resumes

Folder

23

Homestead Consultants and Advisor's Confirmation

Folder

24

Homestead 1892 Centennial Committee's Cultural Committee

Folder

25

Newspaper Clippings on the Homestead Strike, 1990s

Folder

26

Press Kit Originals, 1993

Folder

27

Press Packet for Newsletter Mailing

Folder

28

Press File

Folder

29

Press List

Folder

30

Letters of Support, 1993

Folder

31

Community Contacts

Folder

32

Letters from Advisors

Folder

33

Labor Studies Forum, 1994

Folder

34

Mailing List for Direct Mail Compiled by Susan Gross

Folder

35

Direct Mail Follow-Up

Box 10

Folder

1

Premiere Materials, 1993

Folder

2

Program Advertisements

Folder

3

The River Ran Red Premiere Ticket Reservations

Folder

4

Screening Invitation, November 11, 1992

Folder

5

Labor's Corner Homestead Show, 1990

Folder

6

The River Ran Red Teachers' Guide

Folder

7

Comments on Project and Harrisburg Legislator List, 1990-1991

Folder

8

Pennsylvania Labor Management Network, 1990-1991

Folder

9

Iron and Steel Technology Change Articles

Folder

10

Reviews and News Clippings

Folder

11

Published Summaries and Reviews, 1991-1994

Subseries 5.The River Ran Red, Book material

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries contains information regarding the book based created from the documentary. Files include a bibliography, book orders, and reviews. Photographs used in the book can be found in Series VIII.

Box 10

Folder

12

Book Bibliography

Folder

13

Letters and Proposal Confirmations for Book

Folder

14

Miscellaneous Materials for Book

Folder

15

Book Notes

Folder

16

Book Sidebars

Folder

17

Book Reviews, 1992-1993

Object

1

The River Ran Red T-Shirt

Series VIII.Committees, Rallies, and Strikes, 1977-1984

Scope and Content Notes:

This series documents various labor related committees, rallies, and strikes in the western Pennsylvania region.

Box 12

Folder

1

Women of Steel, 1977-1984

Folder

2

Steelworkers Fight Back, 1977

Folder

3

Rally in the Valley, 1985

Folder

4

USX Clairton Coke Works USWA Local 1557, 1977-1984

Folder

5

Steelworkers Stand Up Press Conference, May 31, 1977

Folder

6

USWA Rally at Station Square, 1983

Folder

7

Tri-State Meeting at Turtle Creek, 1984

Folder

8

J&L Coke Works, 1983

Folder

9

ICU Conference, William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, May 14, 1984

Folder

10

Jobs, Peace, and Freedom March, August, 1983

Folder

11

St. Peter's Church Steelworker Food Bank, 1984

Folder

12-13

Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, 1983-1984

Folder

14

Ed Asner at Rainbow Kitchen, January 19, 1983

Folder

15

Workers' Power in Chicago, 1976

Folder

16

Coal Miners Rally in Pittsburgh, 1978

Folder

17

Mellon Bank Rally in Homestead, 1983

Folder

18

Support our Neighborhood Action Coalition Giant Eagle Rally, 1983

Folder

19

Comeback Conference

Folder

20

Mondale/Ferraro Presidential Rally in Boston, 1984

Folder

21

Westinghouse Air Brake Company Strike

Folder

22

Pittsburgh Gold and Silver Exchange March Against Apartheid in South Africa, 1985

Folder

23

Teamsters for a Democratic Union

Folder

24

Women's Peace Encampment in Seneca, New York, 1984

Folder

25

Thomas Merton Center, 1984

Folder

26

Grand Concourse Strike

Series IX.Audio/Visual Materials

Scope and Content Notes:

This series contains video and audio cassettes and reel to reel film recording Domike's work on
Labor's Corner,
The River Ran Red,
Women of Steel,
Life Without Father,
Niccaribe, and
Out of This Furnace: A Walking Tour. Also included are various reports and interviews regarding Pittsburgh and the steel industry, such as those on the Steel Valley Authority. Reports about union strikes at and the United Mine Workers are also present. It should be noted that many of the titles are only a brief synopsis or part of what may be written on a case and/or its item, as many items include detailed descriptions and further information than a title.

Subseries 1.Labor's Corner

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries contains episodes of the weekly half-hour television program
Labor's Corner which was produced by Domike and discussed issues concerning Pittsburgh area workers and labor unions. The show filmed sixty episodes from 1987-1990 and appeared on Pittsburgh public television station, WQEX.

The videos in this subseries are all part of the production of
The River Ran Red documentary. Included are raw footage, stock footage, voice overs, and the finished edit of the film.

Box 15

Video

052-062

The River Ran Red Videos (5 Betacam, 2 VHS, 4 3/4" Umatic)

Box 16

Video

063-072

The River Ran Red Videos (10 3/4" Umatic)

Box 17

Video

073-093

The River Ran Red Videos (30 Betacam)

Box 18

Video

103-127

The River Ran Red Videos (20 Betacam, 5 3/4" Umatic)

Box 19

Video

128-137

The River Ran Red Videos (10 3/4" Umatic)

Box 20

Video

138-147

The River Ran Red Videos (10 3/4" Umatic)

Box 21

Video

148-157

The River Ran Red Videos (10 3/4" Umatic)

Box 22

Video

158-167

The River Ran Red Videos (10 3/4" Umatic)

Box 23

Video

168-177

The River Ran Red Videos (10 3/4" Umatic)

Box 58

Video

715

The River Ran Red Videos (1 3/4" Tape)

Subseries 3.Women of Steel

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries contains all of the footage, audio, interviews and stock images used to create the 1985 documentary
Women of Steel. The film follows a group of women during their time as steelworkers and their lives after the collapse of the steel industry.
Women of Steel has won numerous first place awards from The National Commission on Working Women Broadcast Awards, The National Educational Film Festival, and the Tucson Women's Video Festival.

Box 24

Video

178-189

Women of Steel Videos (9 3/4" Umatic)

Box 25

Video

190-201

Women of Steel Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 26

Video

202-213

Women of Steel Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 27

Video

214-225

Women of Steel Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 28

Video

226-238

Women of Steel Videos (11 3/4" Umatic, 2 VHS)

Box 29

Video

243-250

Women of Steel Videos (7 VHS)

Box 58

Video

716

Women of Steel Videos (1 3/4" Tape)

Subseries 4.Life Without Father

Scope and Content Notes:

The contents of this series are a variety of formats of tape documenting the creation of the
Life Without Father documentary. Much of the footage is of the interviews of the women featured in the film, but raw footage and the end product are present as well. The final documentary follows three single mothers by choice. The documentary underwent several name changes, with most tapes being labeled SMC (Single Mothers Coalition), but all of the items in this series all pertain to
Life Without Father.

Box 29

Video

239-242, 251-252

Life Without Father Videos (2 VHS, 4 3/4" Umatic)

Box 30

Video

253-264

Life Without Father Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 31

Video

265-276

Life Without Father Videos (12 3/4" Umatic
)

Box 32

Video

277-288

Life Without Father Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 33

Video

289-300

Life Without Father Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 34

Video

301-309

Life Without Father Videos (6 3/4" Umatic, 2 VHS)

Box 58

Video

717

Life Without Father Videos (1 3/4" Tape)

Subseries 5.Nicarribe

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries holds the extensive documentation of the production of
Niccaribe. This documentary was filmed in Nicaragua and focuses on the lands and people of the Atlantic coast, also known as Niccaribe. Interviews about the community, people's heritage, the role of the church, and politics of the 'Niccaribe' area are featured. The interviewees discuss the attempted revolution and military oppression they experienced as well.

Box 34

Video

310-317

Nicarribe Videos (5 Betacam, 1 VHS, 2 3/4" Umatic)

Box 35

Video

318-347

Nicarribe Videos (30 Betacam)

Box 36

Video

348-362

Nicarribe Videos (14 Betacam, 1 3/4" Umatic)

Box 37

Video

363-376

Nicarribe Videos (9 VHS, 5 3/4" Umatic )

Box 38

Video

377-387

Nicarribe Videos (11 3/4" Umatic)

Box 39

Video

388-391

Nicarribe Videos (2 VHS, 9 Betacam, 5 3/4" Umatic)

Subseries 6.Out of This Furnace: A Walking Tour of Thomas Bell's Novel

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries of videocassettes comprises footage taken for the walking tour of Thomas Bell's novel,
Out of This Furnace which documents three generations of mill workers in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The film was developed by Steffie Domike and David Demarest. Demarest was responsible for the book's 1976 reissue by the University of Pittsburgh Press and its afterword. Led by Demarest, the viewer is taken on a trip through Braddock using recent footage, commentary, historic photographs, and readings from the novel.

Box 39

Video

392-403

Out of This Furnace: A Walking Tour of Thomas Bell's Novel Videos (9 Betacam, 2 VHS)

Subseries 7.Steel Valley Authority

Scope and Content Notes:

The Steel Valley Authority was created in 1986 as a coalition of several municipalities in the Mon Valley. Their goal was to revitalize the economic base of the area, including where possible the preservation of its status as a world steel making center. Another goal of the Steel Valley Authority was to explore the possibility of public ownership of abandoned or soon to be abandoned industrial facilities. This subseries contains interviews with several key figures in the Steel Valley Authority, as well as footage of several of the Authority's meetings. The Steel Valley Authority was still active as of 2007 and its main areas of focus include the creation or preservation of industrial jobs, community development, and investing in small to medium sized industrial businesses.

Box 40

Video

404-415

Steel Valley Authority Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 41

Video

416-427

Steel Valley Authority Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 42

Video

428-439

Steel Valley Authority Videos (12 3/4" Umatic)

Box 43

Video

440-453

Steel Valley Authority Videos (7 VHS, 7 3/4" Umatic)

Subseries 8.Assorted Video

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries contains a large variety of video cassettes regarding such topics as the 1990 Greyhound strike, the United Mine Workers of America, and episodes of Domike's television program,
On Camera, which featured independently produced films. There is also plenty of raw footage that feature small projects like promotional videos for United Steelworkers of America, Pennsylvania Department of Education, and other organizations, visual explorations of historical towns, documentation of various events, and tapes made up solely of videoed images. Some of the items in this subseries were not produced or filmed by Domike but were a part of her collection.

This subseries contains photographs and slides which contributed to Domike's many productions. Included are reproductions of images used in
The River Ran Red anthology, as well as original photographs used in
Crashin' Out: Hard Times in McKeesport and
Women of Steel. Also documented are several labor demonstrations and rallies, as well as the last day of work at the USX Duquesne steel mill.

Prior to the addition of new materials in October 2011, this subseries existed as Series VIII. The new materials added largely document Domike's involvement in the Mon-Valley Unemployment Committee's Oral History Project and her various artworks, exhibits and installations. Electronic media in the form of CD-ROMS and zip and floppy disks have also been added. Hard copies of the interview with Monsignor Rice and narratives for Terminal Time have been included in the collection.

Box 11

Folder

1-3

The River Ran Red Anthology Images

Folder

4

Pittsburgh Scenes, 1984

Folder

5

West Homestead Historical Sites

Folder

6

New York Society Library

Folder

7

The River Ran Red Photographs and Negatives

Folder

8

The River Ran Red Location Shots, Loch Rannoch, Scotland

Folder

9

Crashin' Out: Hard Times in McKeesport, 1984

Folder

10-12

Crashin' Out: Hard Times in McKeesport Slides, 1984

Folder

13

Shutdown at Duquesne Slides, 1984

Folder

14

Miscellaneous Slides, 1983-1984

Section: New Material Added, 2011

Box 75

Folder

1

Contact sheets and negatives of
Labor's Corner, undated

Folder

2

Contact sheets and negatives of McKeesport, Early 1980's

Folder

3

Contact sheets and negatives of MVUC attendees at the "Lobby in D.C. for Jobs." 1983

Slides, United Steelworkers of America Meeting and Visit with Jesse Jackson, undated

Folder

41

Slides, United Steelworkers of America Meeting, Workers being Interviewed, and Poland, 1997

Folder

42

Slides, United Steelworkers Meeting and Anti-Reagan Rally, circa 1983

Folder

43

Slides, Squirrel Hill, 1990's

Folder

44

Slides, Various Projects, Installations and Exhibits, 1997-2008

Folder

45

Slides, Various Slides of Photographs By: Sue Wribican, 1989-1993

Series X.Personal Material, 1982-2007

Scope and Content Notes:

This new series, added to the collection October 2011, largely consists of materials relating to Domike's personal life, as well as some professional materials that document her work as an educator. Included are correspondence, conference materials, awards, as well as various resumes and CV's. Syllabi from classes she taught at Chatham are also included.

Box 72

Folder

1

Awards Received from Art Institute, 1982-1983

Folder

2

Clippings of Newspaper Photographs Done while at the
Daily Herald, 1984

Folder

3

Conferences, 1991-2003

Folder

4

Correspondence with The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania Concerning Teaching Resources, 1993

Folder

5

Correspondence with Nakano Rie Regarding Women of Steel, 1987

Folder

6

Creative Arts Award and Women's Shelter, 1987

Folder

7

Curriculum Vitae and Resume Materials, 1999-2001

Folder

8

Invitation to Present
Women of Steel at Carnegie Museum of Art, 1996

Folder

9

Letter Regarding Invitation to Speak at Meeting of University and College Labor Educator's Association, 1989

Presentation, Correspondence and Materials Relating to Workshop Titled, "Life and Labor in the Industrial Valley: A Millennial Perspective," 1999

Folder

19

Press, 1985-2000

Folder

20

Script for Presentation of Various Projects, undated

Folder

21

Syllabi for Classes Taught at Chatham, undated

Folder

22

Research for Trip to Poland, undated

Folder

23

Research for Trip to Russia, 1989-1990

Folder

24

Talk Delivered at SEIU Regional Women's Conference, undated

Folder

25

Transcript of Domike Interview for Pittsburgh Oral History Project, undated

Series XI.Production Materials, 1986-1999

Scope and Content Notes:

This new series, added to the collection October 2011, consists of materials that document the various productions Domike was involved in, both as a director and/or producer. These include
Life Without Father,
Nicarribe,
On Camera and
Working Pittsburgh.

Subseries 1.Life Without Father, 1987-1988

Scope and Content Notes:

Life Without Father was directed by Domike and released in 1990. The documentary examined the rise of mothers deciding to bear and raise children without fathers, otherwise known as "single-motherhood-by-choice." Throughout planning and production the film went through a number of name changes being known as "Significant Mothers," "Single Mothers," and "Being Mom, Being Single." Materials include grant applications, transcripts of interviews, and production materials.

Folder

26

Film Notes, undated

Folder

27

Grant Applications, Proposals and Correspondence, 1987

Folder

28

Group Interview, "Concerning Single Motherhood," 1987

Folder

29

Interview of Donna Jo McDaniels, 1988

Folder

30

Interview of Doreen Chimner, 1988

Folder

31

Interview of Fran Bartkowski, 1988

Folder

32

Interview of Rachel Naismith, 1988

Folder

33

Interview of Regina Buckner, 1988

Folder

34

Preliminary Scripts and Notes, 1987

Folder

35

Press Materials, 1991

Folder

36

Scripts and Edits, 1990

Folder

37

Summary and Discussion Guide to
Significant Mothers, undated

Folder

38

Video Tape Logs, 1987

Subseries 2.Nicarribe: Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast, 1988-1999

Scope and Content Notes:

Nicarribe: Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast was directed and co-produced by Domike. It was released in 1988 as a one hour documentary covering the complex internal struggle for cultural and political autonomy of the ethnically diverse people on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast. Items Include grant materials, correspondence and research materials. The film garnered to awards in 1989. It earned the Silver Star Award at the Sacramento International Film and Video Festival and an Honorable Mention by the Film Council of Greater Columbus Ohio.

Folder

39

Application for Funding, 1988-1989

Folder

40

Correspondence, 1988-1989

Folder

41-42

Research, 1988-1989

Subseries 3.On Camera 1989-1996

Scope and Content Notes:

On Camera was a series featured on Pittsburgh public television station WQEX. Produced by Domike, this hour long program featured independently produced film and video from Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Materials include entry forms, episode summaries and materials related to production.

Folder

43

Budget, 1990

Folder

44

List of Aired Artist's Works, 1989

Folder

45

List of Entries and Entry Forms, 1989

Folder

46

Publicity, undated

Folder

47

Release Forms and Relative Paperwork, 1996

Folder

48

Summary of Episodes, 1989

Subseries 4.Working Pittsburgh 1986-1987

Scope and Content Notes:

Working Pittsburgh was a documentary that focused on Pittsburgh laborers documenting everyone from construction workers to the communication sector and service workers.

Box 73

Folder

17

Interview of Anne Parks Cook, 1987

Folder

18

Interview of Clifford Caldwell, 1987

Folder

19

Interview of Frank Lupinacci, 1987

Folder

20

Interview of I.W. Abel, 1986

Folder

21

Interview of Rosemary Trump, 1987

Folder

22

Interview of Sam Papa, 1987

Folder

23

Interview of Shirley Salata, 1987

Folder

24

Interview of Walter Kliss, 1987

Folder

25

Production Notes, 1987

Subseries 5.Other Productions, 1986-1999

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries contains materials relating to Domike's film and video projects and includes production notes, grant materials, video logs, and interviews.

Folder

26

Assorted Notes for Labor's Corner, undated

Folder

27

Assorted Materials for
Women of Steel, 1988

Folder

28

Building Pittsburgh Meeting Agenda, 1989

Folder

29

Building Pittsburgh Script for Recut, undated

Folder

30

Description of
Out of This Furnace: A Walking Tour of Thomas Bell's Novel, undated

Folder

31-32

Grant Proposal to the NEH for
Colossus Transformed, 1988

Folder

33

Grant Proposal for
Labor's Corner, 1987

Folder

34

Interviews, Tape Logs and Notes for
Building Pittsburgh, 1988

Folder

35

John and Sarah, undated

Folder

36

Log Sheet for Penn State Video, undated

Folder

37

Log Sheet for
Win-Win Bargaining, undated

Folder

38

Miscellaneous Film Notes, undated

Folder

39

Mon Valley Media Business, 1986

Folder

40

Mon Valley Media Notes, 1999

Folder

41

Log of Videos for Labor, undated

Folder

42

Penn State Department of Labor Video Project on Worker Health and Safety, 1990

Folder

43

Proposal, Planning and Budget for
Broadcast of the Arts, 1988

Folder

44

Questions for Interview with Guatemalan Union Worker, undated

Folder

45

Right of Entry Agreement for the Videotaping of Construction Work at Dick Enterprises, 1988

Synopsis of Various Television Projects Involving MILRITE (Making Industry and Labor Right and Today's Economy), undated

Folder

50

Tape Log of IW Abel Interview, 1984

Folder

51

What Do We Win Video Logs, 1996

Folder

52

Who Is The We Legal Releases, 1995

Series XII.Projects, 1983-2006

Scope and Content Notes:

Materials in this subseries relate to exhibits, installations and other projects, such as the Battle of Homestead Foundation in which Domike was involved.

Additional materials relating to her various exhibits and installations can be found within Audio/Visual Materials.

Subseries 1.Exhibits and Installations, 1997-2002

Scope and Content Notes:

Materials Included in this subseries to the many exhibits and installations Domike produced, both independently and collaboratively.

Box 74

Folder

1

Bloodline, 1997

Folder

2

Googling Carnegie, undated

Folder

3

Mapping the Heap, 1997

Folder

3

Press Release for Art Institute Gallery Showing, undated

Folder

4

Representing Carnegie in the Media: From Television to the Web, circa 2000

Folder

5

The River's Edge, 2002

Folder

6

Terminal Time, 1998-2002

Folder

7

Galley Exhibition Announcement Cards, undated

Subseries 3.subRosa, 1999-2006

Scope and Content Notes:

subRosa was founded in 1988 as a "reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers committed to combining art, activism, and politics to explore and critique the intersections of digital information and bio technologies on women’s bodies, lives, and work." Members travelled throughout the world, using performance art, exhibits, and lectures to help spread their message. Domike was an active member of the subRosa art collective.

Folder

14

"Biosex and Gender Ed" Show, 2000

Folder

15

Biotech Sex and Gender Workbook, 2000

Folder

16

Biotechnology and Reproduction Research, undated

Folder

17

Cultures of Technology, 2006

Folder

18

DVD of Selected Projects, 2000-2005

Folder

19

"The Economies of Art," 2001

Folder

20-21

Email Correspondence, 1999

Folder

22

Gallery Exhibit Announcement Cards, 2000-2002

Folder

22

Glossary for Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century, undated

Folder

23

Invitation to "Very Cyberfeminist International" held in Hamburg, 2001

Folder

24

"Knowing Bodies," 2000

Folder

25

Newsletter, undated

Folder

26

Notes, undated

Folder

27

Pamphlet, undated

Folder

28

Proposal for Workshop, 2000

Folder

29

Third Annual Women's Studies Colloquium, 2002

Subseries 4.Other Projects, 1983-2001

Scope and Content Notes:

This subseries contains materials relating to projects in which Domike was involved such as the Fannie Sellins Memorial Committee, "Crashin' Out", the Pittsburgh Teachers Institute and the Summer Youth Employment and Training Program.

As a chair of the memorial committee for the Battle of Homestead Foundation, Domike was instrumental in the implementation of the memorial pump house and museum at the Battle of Homestead. Included in this subseries are materials that document the planning of the memorial site.

Folder

8

Blueprint of Site Landscaping Proposal, undated

Folder

9

Homestead Reference Materials, 1999-2003

Folder

10

Interpreting the Pump House-Homestead 1892-1990's: Report and Recommendations, which includes a report by Domike titled "Images of the Homestead Pumphouse," 1996

Folder

11

Letter Requesting Proposal for Memorial Sculpture at the Battle of Homestead Site, 2001

Folder

12

Site Planning for Pumphouse and Museum, 1997-2004

Folder

13

Various Materials, 2000-2001

Series XIII.Research Materials, 1973-2009

Scope and Content Notes:

This series contains materials relating to research done for various productions and projects. A majority of the materials consist of labor history reference materials.

Folder

37

An Outline of Pennsylvania Labor History, 1780-2000, 2000

Folder

38

Arbitration Award for Grievance Filed by the USC and United Steelworkers of America, 1981

Folder

39

Arrests and Court Cases in Homestead, 1892

Folder

40

Bibliography and Video Resources of Pittsburgh History Compiled by Domike, 2000

Folder

41

Detroit Auto Uprising 1973 By: Jack Weinberg, 1974

Folder

42

The Great Battle of Homestead Coloring Book, 1993

Folder

43

"Harmony in 1811" from
Travels in the United States of America By: John Melish 2003